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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] iSCSI Initiator in Gentoo Linux 2.6.11 hardened
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:00:17
Message-Id: CAA2qdGX9e2tdTXJ=-qmr_n+Rb1NRnodGoq_eL1tC12jzPY5E-Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] iSCSI Initiator in Gentoo Linux 2.6.11 hardened by Pandu Poluan
1 > On 2011-07-29, Zemke, Kai <Kai.Zemke@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 >> Hello everyone,
3 >>
4 >> maybe my question is simple.
5 >> I never used Gentoo hardened sources before, but now I have a Postfix Server
6 >> that is running on Gentoo hardened 2.6.11.
7 >>
8 >> I need iSCSI initiator support for this server but when I do "make
9 >> menuconfig" to build the requested modules ( like iSCSI Initiator over
10 >> TCP/IP ) are not available.
11 >>
12 >> So are these modules not available because of the hardened sources or
13 >> because of the 2.6.11 kernel version?
14 >>
15 >> Can I stay with the hardened sources and just have to upgrade to an newer
16 >> version or is iSCSI not supported with hardened?
17 >>
18
19 On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 17:19, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
20 > (Pls forgive my top-posting)
21 >
22 > IIRC, the latest hardened *has* iSCSI initiator. It was first found in
23 > the kernel 2.6.20.
24 >
25
26 "Linux/i386 2.6.39-hardened-r8 Kernel Configuration"
27
28 Here's the result of a search for "iscsi" :
29
30 Symbol: ISCSI_TCP [=n]
31 Type : tristate
32 Prompt: iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP
33 Defined at drivers/scsi/Kconfig:350
34 Depends on: SCSI_LOWLEVEL [=n] && SCSI [=y] && INET [=y]
35 Location:
36 -> Device Drivers
37 -> SCSI device support
38 -> SCSI low-level drivers (SCSI_LOWLEVEL [=n])
39 Selects: CRYPTO [=y] && CRYPTO_MD5 [=y] && CRYPTO_CRC32C [=n] &&
40 SCSI_ISCSI_ATTRS [=n]
41
42 Rgds,
43 --
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